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Etymology edit

From Proto-Indo-European *dʰemH- (to smoke, blow). Cognate with Lithuanian dùmti (to blow), Polish dąć (to blow), English damp.

Pronunciation edit

Root edit

धम् (dham)

  1. to blow, blow into
  2. to breathe out, exhale
  3. to kindle a fire by blowing
  4. to melt or manufacture (metal) by blowing
  5. to blow or cast away

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References edit

  • Monier Williams (1899) “धम्”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, [], new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 0509/3.
  • Arthur Anthony Macdonell (1893) “धम्”, in A practical Sanskrit dictionary with transliteration, accentuation, and etymological analysis throughout, London: Oxford University Press
  • William Dwight Whitney, 1885, The Roots, Verb-forms, and Primary Derivatives of the Sanskrit Language, Leipzig: Breitkopf and Härtel, page 081
  • Otto Böhtlingk, Richard Schmidt (1879-1928) “धम्”, in Walter Slaje, Jürgen Hanneder, Paul Molitor, Jörg Ritter, editors, Nachtragswörterbuch des Sanskrit [Dictionary of Sanskrit with supplements] (in German), Halle-Wittenberg: Martin-Luther-Universität, published 2016
  • Mayrhofer, Manfred (1992) Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Altindoarischen [Etymological Dictionary of Old Indo-Aryan]‎[1] (in German), volume 1, Heidelberg: Carl Winter Universitätsverlag, page 775